Category: Mindfulness
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20 Inspiring Quotes on Health, Life & Balance
What is ‘holistic health’? According to the dictionary, the word holistic is defined as: “characterized by comprehension of the parts of something as intimately interconnected and explicable only by reference to the whole.” So, when we use the word in reference to our health, what we mean is the picture of health that includes not only the…
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Could Mindfulness Be Your Company’s Secret Weapon?
“Many people live habitually as if the present moment were an obstacle that they need to overcome in order to get to the next moment. And imagine living your whole life like that, where always this moment is never quite right, not good enough because you need to get to the next one. That is…
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5 Practices for a Longer and Healthier Life
Aging is a natural and inevitable phenomenon, starting at birth and continuing until the moment we die. Due to modern medicine and hygiene standards, lifespans across the globe are longer than ever, but what about our healthspan? Unfortunately, there is a widening discrepancy in this country between healthspan and lifespan; those that live both long…
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Two Important Life Lessons I’ve Learned from My Relationship with Food
There is so much that we can learn from our relationship with food. Whether it be characterized by deprivation, indulgence, guilt, love, fear, anxiety, distraction, companionship, happiness, survival, or a combination of the above, what and how we eat provides us with a window into our tendencies and habits, and perhaps even the imbalances in…
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How Yoga Made Me Believe in Myself
I write a lot about yoga as a lifestyle…so much more than a series of physical postures, yoga, when practiced consistently, will open your mind up to a belief system that is not limited by social norms and thoughts of “not enough”. At the heart of the yogic paradigm is self-realization, a process that involves…
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What’s On Your Gratitude List?
During this time of Thanksgiving, we are reminded to be thankful. As I reflected this morning on all of the things that I am thankful for (see my list at the bottom of this page), an air of fulfillment washed over me. Suddenly, all of the items on my “to do” list drifted away, as…
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Meditation is Therapy
Meditation can change the course of your day by shifting your mindset. A diligent meditation practice can change the course of your entire life…I know because it has mine. When I am meditating daily, I am more connected to my true self, my life purpose, and my abundance. I am happier and more in control…
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How Do You Eat?
The way we eat is equally important as what we eat. When we are fully present for what and how we’re eating, we can derive more sustained pleasure from the eating experience, and our tendency to overeat or eat foods that do not serve us is reduced. Additionally, if we are stressed, tense, anxious and unaware when…
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Yoga Has Made it Mainstream…But, What Exactly is Yoga?
In my experience as a yoga practitioner, teacher and advocate, I have noticed that, like many things, yoga can be largely misunderstood. It is no doubt that yoga has hit the mainstream, pervading popular culture in practice, commercials, TV shows, movies and conversation. I am all for this—the more people that are exposed to yoga…
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How to Be More Mindful
To follow-up on my last post about the benefits of mindful living, I wanted to offer you some simple awareness practices to bring mindfulness into your day: 1. Write Upon waking, rather than lying in bed and letting anxious thoughts about the day ahead fester, get up and sit at a desk or another comfortable…